page_title: River Lee Country Park
section_title: Lakes
hierarchical_section_title: River Lee Country Park / Lakes
caption_attribution_description: Picture of Herts Young Mariners at Cheshunt Lake at Cheshunt.
context_page_description: The River Lee Country Park is located in the Lee Valley Park and is managed by the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. Covering 1,000 acres acres on either side of the River Lee Navigation between Waltham Abbey and Broxbourne. An area of lakes, watercourses, open spaces and three Sites of Special Scientific Interest linked by footpaths and cycle tracks.
  The site straddles the Hertfordshire/Essex boundary.
context_section_description: The following are some of the larger waters that can be visited in the park. Some of them form the Turnford and Cheshunt Pits SSSI. 
  Bowyers Water. Believed to be hand dug in the 1920s, and one of the oldest lakes in the Lee Valley.TL3664401519
  Cheshunt Lake. Home of the Herts Young Mariners. TL3682002633 
  Friday Lake A carp fishery. TL3699002004
  Hall Marsh Scrape. The lake was specifically constructed for the use by wildfowl. TL3710701742
  Holyfield Lake. The 180 acres (73 ha) lake incorporates part of the River Lee Flood Relief Channel. TL3736604898
  Hooks Marsh Lake The over- wintering bittern can be found here between December and March. TL3717502523
  North Metropolitan. Better known as North Met Pit. Due to the many islands and inlets, the lake has an estimated shoreline of 4 miles (6.4 km). TL3679403257
  Seventy Acres Lake. The bittern and the otter can be seen here. TL3742203097
  Turnford Pits.TL3701204955 Small relics of unimproved grassland that preceded gravel extraction can be found adjacent to the lakes.
caption: The Herts Young Mariners at Cheshunt Lake
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